object to

object to (someone or something)

To oppose, disagree with, or disapprove of someone or something. I know the board members object to the spending increase, but I really think it is vital for the company's success. My parents have always objected to the women I date, so I just don't tell them about my love life anymore.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

object to someone or something

to disapprove of someone or something. I object to him as your choice. I object to your opinion.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

object to

v.
To express disagreement with or disapproval of something: The city council objects to vulgar art displays in public buildings.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • object to (someone or something)
  • go against
  • go against (someone or something)
  • take a poor view of (someone or something)
  • protest about
  • protest about (someone or something)
  • protest against (someone or something)
  • fight about
  • fight about (someone or something)
  • disagree with
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In one experiment, a robot was first shown an object situated to its left, then a different object to the right; then the process was repeated several times to create an association between the objects and the robot's two postures.
The object to be hidden in the blue region is folded into the dashed green part inside the green region (the background object).
We know of no other Object to Relational Mapping tool that retains linear performance for complex models.
CocoBase Enterprise O/R is a vendor neutral Dynamic Object to Relational Mapping layer that sits on top of the JDBC driver between the application objects (often running in an application server or stand-alone) and the database (which is usually a relational database for most modern IT organizations).
Centera links the fixed content object to the application and user via an intermediate data structure, called a c-clip descriptor file (CDF) that contains: time-stamp information, any application-specified meta-data, and the content address for the stored object.
To implement the first capability, a small "manipulation-control object" is placed near the object to be controlled.
To create a hyperlink, click on the object to display its handles, click on Insert Hyperlink on the Standard toolbar to display the Insert Hyperlink dialog box (see exhibit 14, page 84), select the Place in This Document option and click on the desired worksheet.
The POA specification also allows a single CORBA object to be incarnated by one or more servants during its lifetime.
These include the unique sound of a novel word, the acoustic emphasis and falling pitch adults use in the course of pronouncing a new word, the eye gaze and gestures a speaker employs, and the repeated accompaniment of a word with the object to which it refers.
However, by setting her story in the Harlem of the '20s, Morrison reminds us of how the Harlem Renaissance, one historical enactment of this desire, omitted the female element from its dominant political discourse despite the number of black women contributing to the movement.(3) This enactment of desire retained the necessary element of violence and ultimately saw its object to be subjectivity, but it was a black male desire driving toward a black male subjectivity.
It simply calls upon the document object to do the job through a method called "messaging."
Valentin understood that consigning the comic object to the venues usual to the display of self-conscious imaginative objects--the art gallery, the art museum--would cause them to be interpreted as art.
"The addition of enterprise-level Object to Relational Mapping with CocoBase(R) is an excellent choice for users of Describe, and is in line with the needs of our enterprise customer base."
Carving illustrates Newton Second Law of Motion (2): An external force on an object causes the object to accelerate, or speed up, in the direction of the force.
For multi-user applications with NT and Unix clients, the NAS appliance should allow a file system object to support both NT-style Security Descriptors and Unix-style permissions.